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Homeless advocates to rally in Manhattan to defend controversial ‘right to shelter’ law

Posted on December 5, 2023 by Julia Joseph and Adolfo Carrion in News 12 Brooklyn

Concerned New Yorkers and advocates filled Bowling Green Park in lower Manhattan on Tuesday morning, begging the city and state to keep the Right to Shelter Law alive. ..Read More

Melissalee

Posted on December 1, 2023

The Coalition’s First Step graduate Melissalee has overcome so many obstacles to get to the point that she is today. After attending our job training program, she found a job, housing, and a community of women who showed her how to tap into her own strengths ..Read More

Helping Homeless People Who Are Mentally Ill

Posted on November 28, 2023 by Dave Giffen in The New York Times

“Behind Acts of Violence, Years of Mistakes” (front page, Nov. 21) effectively underscores the decades of neglect, underfunding and mismanagement that have made New York’s mental health system such a resounding failure for so many people in our city... ..Read More

ARTWALK NY Returns after Four Years – Over $500,000 Raised for the Coalition for the Homeless

Posted on November 27, 2023 by G. Worth

On Thursday, November 16, 2023, ARTWALK NY returned for the first time in four years. It was a stunning night packed to the rafters with friends and supporters of the Coalition for the Homeless. ..Read More

NYC expands 30-day stay limits to single adult migrants in DHS shelters

Posted on November 13, 2023 by Arya Sundaram in Gothamist

The Adams administration, looking to free up space in the city's beleaguered shelter system, will begin sending notices Monday to single adult migrants in Department of Homeless Services accommodations directing them to leave within 30 days. ..Read More

Mayor Adams weighs in on migrant crisis at Floyd Bennett Field as families refuse to stay

Posted on November 13, 2023 by Eyewitness News in ABC Eyewitness News

MARINE PARK, Brooklyn -- Only 13 migrant families decided to stay at the newly opened shelter at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. ..Read More

Is NYC’s Mayor Playing into Anti-Immigrant Sentiment?

Posted on November 9, 2023 by Isaiah Thompson in Nonprofit Quarterly

Op-Ed | New York City can start addressing the migrant emergency by cutting government red tape

Posted on November 8, 2023 by Diana Ayala and Rhonda Jackson in AMNY

Since January 2023, New York City has taken in 95,000 migrants. Their arrival has spurred countless debates on a national scale surrounding New York’s shelter capacity and the city’s ability to provide housing for this growing population. ..Read More

Descendants of the New Deal Architects Advocate for the Protection of the Right to Shelter in Powerful Letter to Governor Hochul

Posted on November 8, 2023 by Casey O'Hara

The grandchildren of the original architects of the New Deal wrote an impassioned letter to Governor Kathy Hochul calling on her to honor the legacy and values championed by their grandparents by refraining from eroding New York’s legal Right to Shelter. The ..Read More

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